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Sex and Muhammad

Was Muhammad, whom the Quran says is the perfect model for mankind, sexually restrained?

The Quran (which was narrated by Muhammad) refers to Muhammad's life as "a
beautiful pattern of conduct for anyone whose hope is in Allah" (33:21) and "an
exalted standard of character" (68:4). Yet, thanks to Allah's
extraordinary interest in his personal sex life (as immortalized in the Quran)
the prophet of Islam had sex with just about anyone he pleased.

Although the Quran didn't appear to have enough space for topics like universal
love and brotherhood (which neophytes sometimes insist are there, but aren't), the
list of sexual partners that Muhammad was entitled to is detailed more than
once, sometimes in categories and sometimes in reference to specific persons (ie. Zaynab
and Mary).

Muhammad was married to thirteen
women, including eleven
at one time. He relegated them to either consecutive days or (according to
some accounts) all in one night. He had sex with a 9-year-old girl and
married his
adopted son's wife (after arranging a quick divorce). On top of that, Muhammad had a multitude of slave girls and
concubines with whom he had sex - sometimes on the very days in which they watched their husbands and fathers die at the hands of his army.

So,
by any realistic measure, the creator of the world's most sexually restrictive
religion was also one of the most sexually indulgent characters in history.

Quran

Allah managed to hand down quite a few "revelations"
that sanctioned Muhammad's personal pursuit of sex to the doubters around him.
Interestingly they have become part of the the eternal, infallible word of the
Quran, to be memorized by generations of Muslims for whom they have no possible
relevance.
Quran (33:37)
- "But when Zaid had accomplished his want of her, We gave her to you as a
wife, so that there should be no difficulty for the believers in respect of the
wives of their adopted sons, when they have accomplished their want of them; and
Allah's command shall be performed." No doubt millions of young
Muslims, trying to outdo one another at memorizing the Quran, have wondered
about what this verse means and why it is there. In fact, this is a
"revelation" of convenience that Allah just happened to hand down at a time when
Muhammad lusted after his daughter-in-law, Zaynab, - a state of affairs that disturbed
local customs. The verse "commands" Muhammad to marry the woman (following
her husband's gracious divorce). As for why this should be part of the
eternal word of God...?

Quran (33:50)
- "O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have
given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom
Allah has given to you as prisoners of war, and the daughters of your paternal
uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts, and the daughters of your
maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who fled with you; and
a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to
marry her-- specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what We
have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands
possess in order that no blame may attach to you; " This is another special
command that Muhammad handed down to himself that allows virtually unlimited
sex, divinely sanctioned by Allah. One assumes that this "revelation" was
meant to assuage some sort of
disgruntlement in the community over Muhammad's hedonism.

Quran (33:51)
- "You may put off whom you please of them, and you may take to you whom you
please, and whom you desire of those whom you had separated provisionally; no
blame attaches to you; this is most proper, so that their eyes may be cool and
they may not grieve, and that they should be pleased" This is in
reference to a situation in which Muhammad's wives were grumbling about his
preference for sleeping with a slave girl (Mary the Copt) instead of them.
Accordingly, Muhammad may sleep
with whichever wife (or slave) he wishes without having to hear the others complain... as
revealed in Allah's literal and perfect words to more than a billion Muslims.

Quran (66:1-5)
- "O Prophet! Why do you ban (for yourself) that which Allah has made
lawful to you, seeking to please your wives?... Allah has already
ordained for you, the dissolution of your oaths " Another
remarkably personal passage of sexual convenience in a book billed as
Allah's perfect and eternal message to mankind. Muhammad was
caught sleeping with a slave woman on the night that he was supposed to
be with one of his wives. Initially promising to be faithful,
"Allah" tells his prophet to break that promise and enjoy sex with his
slaves. If his wives objected then "it may be if he divorced
you (all) that his Lord will give him instead of you, wives better than
you."

Quran (4:24)
- "And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom
your right hands possess." Allah even permitted Muhammad and his men
to have sex with married slaves, such as those captured in battle.

Hadith and Sira

Sahih Muslim (8:3309) - Muhammad consummated his marriage to Aisha when she was
only nine. (See also
Sahih Bukhari 58:234 and many other places). No where in the reliable Hadith
or Sira is there any other age given. Other references are Sahih Bukhari
3896, 5158 and 3311.

Sahih Bukhari (62:18) - Aisha's father, Abu Bakr, wasn't on board at first, but
Muhammad explained how the rules of their religion made it possible. This
is similar to the way that present-day cult leaders manipulate their followers
into similar concessions.

Sahih Muslim (8:3311) - The girl took her dolls with her to Muhammad's house
(something to play with when the "prophet" was not having sex with her).

Sahih Muslim (8:3460) - "Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you could
sport with her and she sport with you, or you could amuse with her and she
could amuse with you?" Muhammad posed this question to one of his
followers who had married an "older woman" instead of opting to fondle a child.

Sahih Bukhari (4:232) - Muhammad's wives would wash semen stains out of his
clothes, which were still wet from the spot-cleaning even when he went to the
mosque for prayers. Between copulation and prayer, it's a wonder he found
the time to slay pagans.

Sahih Bukhari (6:300) - Muhammad's wives had to be available for the prophet's
fondling even when they were having their menstrual period.

Sahih Bukhari (93:639) - The Prophet of Islam would recite the 'Holy Quran' with
his head in Aisha's lap, when she was menstruating.

Sahih Bukhari (62:6) - "The Prophet used to go round (have sexual relations
with) all his wives in one night, and he had nine wives."
Muhammad also said that it was impossible to treat all wives
equally -
and it isn't hard to guess why.

Sahih Bukhari (5:268) - "The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round,
during the day and night and they were eleven in number." I asked Anas, 'Had the
Prophet the strength for it?' Anas replied, 'We used to say that the Prophet was
given the strength of thirty men.' "

Sahih Bukhari (60:311) - "I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your
wishes and desires." These words were spoken by Aisha within the
context of her husband having been given 'Allah's permission' to fulfill his
sexual desires with a large number of women in whatever order he chooses.
(It has been suggested that Aisha may have been speaking somewhat wryly).

Sahih Muslim (8:3424) - One of several narrations in which a leering Muhammad
orders a clearly startled woman to suckle a grown man with her breast so that he
will become "unlawful" to her - meaning that they can live under the same roof
together.

Tabari IX:137 - "Allah granted Rayhana of the
Qurayza to Muhammad as booty." Muhammad considered the women
that he captured and enslaved to be God's gift to him.

Tabari VIII:117 - "Dihyah had asked the
Messenger for Safiyah when the Prophet chose her for himself... the Apostle
traded for Safiyah by giving Dihyah her two cousins. The women of Khaybar were
distributed among the Muslims." He sometimes pulled rank to reserve
the most beautiful captured women for himself.

Tabari IX:139 - "You are a self-respecting girl,
but the prophet is a womanizer." Words spoken by the disappointed
parents of a girl who had 'offered' herself to Muhammad (he accepted).

Notes

Muhammad's sexual antics are an embarrassment to those
Muslims who are aware of the truth. This is particularly so with their prophet's
consummation of his marriage to Aisha when she was only nine years of age. The thought of a 53-year-old
man sleeping and bathing with a young girl is intensely unpleasant and it
reflects the disgusting character of a sexual glutton rather than a holy man.
Critics even allege that Muhammad was a pedophile.

Some Muslims respond by denying the hadith itself, which is
a mistake. The accounts of Muhammad sleeping with a 9-year-old are no less
reliable than those on which the five pillars of Islam are based. They
have been an accepted part of tradition and did not become controversial until
social mores began to change with the modern age.

The charge of pedophilia may or may not be true, depending
on how it is defined. Technically, Muhammad did have a sexual relationship
with a child, but Aisha was also the youngest of his twelve wives. Zaynab
was in her 30's when she attracted the unquenchable lust of the prophet.
We don't know the age of Muhammad's sex slaves. They may or may not have
been as young as Aisha, but there is no point in speculating.

Prior to the medical advances of the last century, marriage
occurred at a much younger age across all societies. When life expectancy
was in the mid 20's (or lower), it made no sense to wait until 19 to start having
children; otherwise, one ran the risk of not being around to raise them.
In short, childhood as we know it was abbreviated by the reality of the times.

Another strong piece of evidence against Muhammad being a
pedophile is that, according to the same Hadith, he waited from the time Aisha
was six (when the marriage ceremony took place) until she turned nine to
consummate the relationship. Although the text doesn't say why, in all
probability it was because he was waiting for her to begin menstrual cycles -
thus entering into "womanhood." It is unlikely that a pedophile would be
concerned about this.

On the other hand, Muhammad passed down revelations from
Allah that clearly condoned sleeping with underage girls, even by the standard
of puberty.
Quran (65:4)
relates rules for divorce, one of them being that a waiting period of three
months is established to determine that the woman is not pregnant. But the
same rule applies to "those too who have not had their courses,"
meaning girls who have not begun to menstruate. (In our opinion, this
would have been a great time for Allah to have said something else instead like,
"a real man is one who marries an actual, grown woman"... but that's just us).

Thanks to Muhammad's extremely poor judgment (at best) and
explicit approval of pedophilia, sex with children became
deeply
ingrained in the Islamic culture. For many centuries, Muslim armies
would purge Christian and Hindu peasant villages of their menfolk and send the
women and children to harems and the thriving child sex slave markets deep in
the Islamic world.

When it comes to child marriage, contemporary clerics
warn fellow Muslims against succumbing to the disapproval of the Christian
West: "It behooves those who call for setting a minimum age for marriage to
fear Allah and not contradict his Sharia, or try to legislate things Allah did
not permit. For laws are Allah’s province; and legislation is his excusive
right, to be shared by none other. And among these are the rules governing
marriage.”

The Ayatollah Khomeini, who married a 12-year-old girl, even gave his
consent to using infants
for sexual pleasure (although warning against full penetration until the baby is
a few years older). In April, 2010, a 13-year-old Yemeni girl
died from
injuries suffered to her womb during "intercourse".

Some clerics propose relative mercy on underage girls by
endorsing a process known as "thighing" (also known as "child molestation" in the
West). According to a recent fatwa (number 23672), an imam answers this
question: "My parents married me to a young girl who hasn't yet reached
puberty. How can I enjoy her sexually?" by telling the 'man' that he may
"hug her, kiss her, and ejaculate between her legs."

A prominent member of Saudi Arabia's highest religious
council
said in 2012 that girls can be married "even if they are in the cradle,"
then went on to explain that intercourse may occur whenever "they are capable
of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the man."

Muhammad's penchant for girls so much younger than him was
such that at least two of his father-in-laws (Abu Bakr and Omar, the first two
Caliphs) were actually younger than him as well. This disappointing
pattern is very much at odds with the sort of sexual discipline that one might
expect of a true "prophet of God."

Muhammad's pursuit of Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son is almost as tough to stomach. This is because it not only
raises a similar question of moral character, but also casts suspicion on whether
his so-called prophecies were really divine revelation or dictates of personal
convenience. According to one biographer, even Aisha appears to be
somewhat doubtful of Muhammad's claim that Allah commanded him to marry Zaynab,
wryly remarking, "Truly Allah seems to be very quick in fulfilling your
prayers."

So controversial was Muhammad's desire to marry his adopted
son's wife that he had to justify it with a stern pronouncement from Allah on the very
institution of adoption, which has had tragic consequences to this day.
Verses 33:4-5
are widely interpreted to imply that Islam is
against adoption,
meaning that an untold number of children in the Islamic world have been
needlessly orphaned - all because Muhammad's lustful desires for a married woman
went beyond even what the other six wives that he possessed at the time and a multitude of slaves
could satisfy.

Some Muslims deny that Muhammad was married to more than
four women at a time, merely on the basis that the Quran only gives permission
for marrying four. Unfortunately, Muslims historians disagree. Only
one of Muhammad's last eleven wives died before him (Zaynab bint Khuzayma).
The rest outlived him by many years.

Muhammad forbade his ten widows from remarrying, even
making sure that this "divine" order was forever preserved in the eternal word
of Allah -
Quran (33:53).
To add insult to injury, they were all summarily disinherited from Muhammad's
estate by his successor (courtesy of another divine order "given" to Abu Bakr
from Allah).

In summary, Islam's holiest texts portray Muhammad not as a
perfect man, but as a sexual hedonist. Not only did he become
fat
from indulging in food, but his pursuit of sex was no less gluttonous. On
top of it all, he used personal "revelations" from Allah to justify his
debauchery to the gullible masses which, to this day, continue to be venerated
and memorized as if they are the holiest of utterances.